COUPLE


Meaning of COUPLE in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ adorable ( AmE ), attractive , beautiful , cute ( AmE ), good-looking , great , handsome , lovely

▪ happy , loving , perfect , romantic

▪ elderly , middle-aged , old , retired , young

▪ heterosexual

▪ gay , homosexual , lesbian , same-sex

▪ engaged , honeymoon , married , newly married , newly-wed

The hotel was full of honeymoon ~s.

▪ cohabiting , unmarried

▪ interracial ( AmE )

▪ childless , infertile

childless ~s seeking to adopt

VERB + COUPLE

▪ make

They make a beautiful ~.

PHRASES

▪ the happy ~ (= the two people getting married)

We stood and drank a toast to the happy ~.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .